it's no secret that over the last few years a lot of things have switched to being online
stores and shops meetings classes and though it may be overwhelming the good news is that it is
possible to create do or sell pretty much anything online and there's only really one thing that you
need a website in today's video i'm going to show you guys how to build a website for free
in less than 10 minutes i did a video similar to this almost three years ago and i had hundreds
of people in the comments telling me how helpful it was that they didn't know it was this easy to
make a website and i myself am actually in need of a new website where people can access my free
digital products so i figured i would make that and just take you guys right along with me thank
you to logitech for sponsoring today's video and helping me help you guys out after watching this i
promise you'll be prepared to easily make your own website and conquer the online world let's go so
the very first step to building your own site is to click the link in my description box and create
a free account so it'll bring you to the sign up page here and like i said it's absolutely free
no credit card required there are certain paid features that you can have on your website such as
the appointment booking tool just for example you can upgrade to a paid plan which i'll talk about
later but for now we're sticking with the free account once you've made an account it'll take
you to this page where you're just gonna click on create new site once you click on that it'll take
you to a new tab where you will answer a couple questions so that the wix artificial design
intelligence can kind of get to know the type of website you're looking to create so the first
question what kind of website are you creating i'm going to put online store for this one because i'm
looking to basically post free digital products maybe sell some products in the future if i start
doing that but let's say for example you want to have online courses or you're a teacher you can
literally type course and all of these options will show up i'm just again going to start with
online shop click next and then it's going to ask what do you want to add to your website so again
these are all these features and things that you can find later but wix is trying to make your life
easier by plugging and playing for you so that you don't have to do a ton of work so for now
i'm not really sure what i want and i don't want to overwhelm myself so i'm actually just going to
uncheck this i know that i want the online store i don't need chat or forms or forum even though that
could be cool in the future and then here are some other things i think that i'm gonna want
an instagram feed maybe a blog but again for now probably not but you can get all sorts of
other things food orders if you're a food business things like that and then i'm going to push next
all right before we get to this next step speaking of everything being online these days if you're
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so here is the fun part basically you have two options here you can either let the wix artificial
design intelligence create a website for you it's very plug and play if you click on that you can
just answer a series of questions and it'll pretty much create a website for you the other option if
you don't want to go that way is to just create your website with the editor you start with a
template and you customize it however you want so to be clear you can still customize the website if
you have wix make it for you but the other option is very intuitive and easy to follow as well lots
of dragging and dropping so you don't need to be intimidated by creating your website with the
editor so i'll click on the wix adi for a second to just show you you literally would type in the
name of your store so mine would just be my name and then if you even have another website where
you have images and text that you want to import you could put it right here i do not so i'm not
going to here you can add your logo address all of those things i'm just going to add a profile
picture and i don't really have anything else that i want to show you can add your social links so
let's just pretend boom boom next you would pick a theme that you like let's just click on this one
and then it asks you if you want to create a color palette from your logo that could be really handy
if you have a logo with color i don't really so i'm gonna skip that and from there it has
you pick from three separate themes i'm gonna go ahead and click on this middle one i think
i like that the most oh but that one's cool too i like that they're minimal maybe i do like this
one the most use this design once you click on that it'll allow you to add different pages to
your design if you know that you want an about us page an faq store policies testimonials and again
these will be custom to whatever website you have if you wanted to do online courses these
would look a little bit different these options so here we go it will put the final touches on my
site and of course from here i can just edit it as i please i just wanted to show you that but we are
not going to spend much time over here because i'm just going to show you how to build your own from
scratch in less than 10 minutes so we're going to go back delete this but if you want to use that
it's there all right so we're back to this page this time i'm going to click on edit a template
okay so here we get to pick a website template that we love so as you can see there's all these
different categories so you can basically choose whatever it is that you're creating
ooh that's actually awesome they have so many options now they have so many more options since
the last time i made a video here we can kind of scroll through all of the different templates i'm
definitely gonna go for a really simple minimal look but as you can see there's so many different
ones and if you click on view you can really get a feel for what this could look like so of course
anything can be changed colors fonts things like that this one already looks really cool nice and
simple products right here wow and then here if you click on the mobile button very easy way for
you to just see what it would look like on a phone so i think i actually am going to use this one
the accessory stores template here it opens right up to this page so everything like i said is very
intuitive click around and you will notice that you can change things very easily change the
background here it has tons of different colors and images that you can choose from this menu
will be your little safe haven so this is the add button you can add a number of things basically
anything you want to this site text images buttons and look how many different options they have
galleries if you want photos decorative little elements interactive elements boxes lists
which they have just so many cute customizable options you can add youtube videos you can add
a playlist they have different kind of menu looks which are really cool social icons and you know
pretty much anything you want so like let's say i wanted this you literally just click it and
drag it onto the site and there it is change the strip background that would allow you to
change the photo that's in the back so let's just pretend we wanted this photo boom it's that easy
so this is your like all-encompassing if you want to add anything new that's not already part of the
template you would click on this the next is menus and pages so here's where you actually see all the
pages that you have on your website so obviously you have the home page which is this whole thing
whatever is going to be on that very first page and then you can basically customize these to be
whatever you want as you can notice our top navigation have these things i don't really
need any of these so i'm just going to click the three dots and then click on hide and then we have
hidden pages you can ignore these they're pages that can be navigated to when clicking through the
site but they aren't part of the navigation bar if you want something to be part of the navbar click
the three dots and then unhide it if you want to add a page you can do so right here you can list
the services that you offer you can add a projects page for kind of a portfolio feel anything like
that wix stores is an app that you can add where that is what allows you to actually have ecommerce
embedded into your website so if you want people to be able to buy things from your actual site you
would use wix stores these were automatically put on my site because i chose an online store
template but again using wix stores does require upgrading to a paid plan so i don't actually think
i'm going to use this for this site and same with wix members area that is an app that you can use
if you have membership subscriptions things like that if you click on the site design button this
is where you can alter your theme color and text your page background and any page transitions
so we just have a white background but as you can see you could have literally anything you could
have an image you could have just a color and it'll show you the ones that kind of go well with
the theme so that's pretty cool i'm just going to keep mine on the white if you click on this this
is the apps button so this is where wix has a lot of things that you can add to your site some are
free some are paid there are so many different things here including all of these business
solutions i've used these in the past so again wix stores if you want to be selling things online
wix bookings i've also used that super awesome it's a scheduling platform so you can customize
that however you want and then we have basically just a whole lot of other things that you can have
for now i'm not going to do any of those but you can take a look if you need anything then we have
the media button this allows you to upload any of your own media it also allows you to edit photos
and videos in wix but most importantly they have so many options for free images that you can use
you can basically search anything that you want laptop and there will be plenty of free images
that you can use from either wix shutter stock or unsplashed and they don't cost any money you
can also favorite different things so if you just click on this little tag it'll show up in
your favorites board right there so that it's easy to just drag and drop into future sites
or this site then we have this blogging button my store so again if you want the store function and
business tools which we're not going to get into this in this video but they have so many seo tools
that'll drive traffic to your website without you really having to do anything it's very automated
and super smart okay but back to the actual page so we're gonna get back to the home page
boom and i'm just gonna edit this around a little bit and i'll come back and show you what i've done
all right it is a little bit later now and as you saw i was messing around with the site like i said
i'm keeping it pretty simple right now and i'll play around later and see if i want to add any
more of the paid features but for now this is what i came up with i think it took me legitimately
like seven minutes to make this site because i used images that were already there i uploaded
this one image of my own so let's go ahead and preview what it looks like so here is what the
final site looks like as you can tell i have an ad at the top because i haven't upgraded to
a different plan and i honestly don't think i'm going to i literally just changed all the text
up here to reflect my own information and my links to my own social media and then if you scroll down
this is the homepage i have some buttons right here that navigate to these other pages i'll
show you in a second and then i actually added a little merch store thing but really this is just
a gallery slider of photos but i set each photos link to go to the merch store which is super cool
so it's like a built-in kind of redirection i just added this photo and i just added text and
these were like little images you could drag and drop and that's really it on the home page
so if i click here these are each of the pages that actually hold the wallpaper i was trying to
find a workaround so that i didn't need to have the wix stores app on here and what i decided
to do was just add each of my wallpapers as an individual photo with text right here this was
actually a template this whole thing right here so i didn't do any of this i just changed what
it said if you click it i just had it linked to a google drive download that anybody can access
so this is kind of a workaround if you have free content that you want people to be able to
download without having to have a store obviously if you want people to pay for it you're going to
have to have the e-commerce plug-in so this is the iphone wallpaper and then we have ipad
wallpaper same exact thing except there aren't as many and then i don't have any laptop wallpaper
yet but i literally just duplicated this page three times and legitimately made this so quickly
so of course actually plugging in all the images and making sure they link properly takes a little
bit more time than 10 minutes but honestly this whole entire thing took me not even 20. so it
really went fast and i think it's super cute super simple i really don't need a lot on here
anyway hope you like it we do want to go back to the editor and make sure that the mobile
version looks good that's the last step before hitting publish so you want to click on switch to
mobile right here so then if you go over to the side it's the exact same as the normal desktop
version but for mobile so you can see the menus and pages so now that you've designed your website
to be what you want you can always add more later don't even worry about it but the next
step is to actually hit publish so we're gonna click publish right here and then your site is
literally online already it has a certain domain that they give you if you do want to have a custom
domain you need to upgrade your plan but if you do buy a custom domain and you don't want to upgrade
this i believe you can just do domain forwarding where if somebody types your custom domain into
the address bar it'll forward and redirect them to this site all right you guys so that's it for
this video i hope you found this helpful if you have any questions please leave them down below
because i know i couldn't cover everything in this video but i hope it gave you at least a
really good start and a good idea as to how to make a very simple solid professional looking
website in under 10 minutes click the link in my description to get started for free and thanks
again so much to logitech for sponsoring today's video if you want to check out their products the
mx master series is so awesome i have so many of their products and use them all the time so
i will link all those down below as well and i'll see you guys in my next video bye you